Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WINTER, CHARLES (1700 - 1773), Arminian Baptist minister debate in the Baptist Association, which met at Hengoed in 1730 and at which Abel Francis was also present, Winter (but not David and Isaac) consented to a compromise, and indeed afterwards became assistant to Morgan Griffith (died 1738), pastor of the church. In 1740, though there was a party which desired the promotion of Winter, the majority favoured Griffith Jones of Pen-y-fai, and Winter co
WOGAN family landowners in Daugleddy, became prominent in local affairs, particularly in the 15th and 16th century. A number of them were knights - Sir JOHN WOGAN (died 1419), his grandson, Sir HENRY WOGAN, steward of the earldom of Pembroke in 1448 (his wife was Margaret, daughter of Sir William Thomas, later Herbert, of Raglan), and his son, Sir JOHN WOGAN, whose wife was Matilda, daughter and heiress of William
WOOD family, Welsh gipsies , who was the first pupil of Richard Roberts, the Caernarvon harpist; (2) WILLIAM WOOD, father of HENRY WOOD ('Harri Ddu') the Llanidloes harpist who was so well known to the poet Ceiriog - Harry was buried at Penrhyn-deudraeth about 1883; and (3) SARAH WOOD, who married John Robert Lewis of Pentrefoelas, cousin of the almanac-maker John Robert Lewis. Their son was John Roberts of Newtown (1816 - 1894).
WROTH, WILLIAM (1576 - 1641), Puritan cleric, and founder of the first Independent church in Wales of High Commission in October 1635, and after much procedure of adjourning, charging, and rebutting, Wroth submitted to discipline in 1638; the most likely theory is that he surrendered the rectory in that year, as he describes himself in his last will (17 September 1638) as ' Preacher of God's Word ' and not ' rector of Llanfaches.' That will is a most interesting document, with the name of Henry
WYNDHAM-QUIN, WINDHAM HENRY (5th EARL DUNRAVEN and MOUNT-EARL), (1857 - 1952), soldier and politician
WYNDHAM-QUIN, WINDHAM THOMAS (4th EARL of DUNRAVEN AND MOUNT-EARL in the Irish peerage, 2nd Baron KENRY of the United Kingdom), (1841 - 1926), Glamorgan landowner and politician, sportsman and author with another Welshman, Henry Morton Stanley, then the correspondent of the New York Herald and wrote some of his copy for him. In 1869, Lord Adare, as he then was, married Florence Elizabeth, daughter of Lord Charles Lennox Kerr, and visited America for the first time. He constantly returned to that country and even bought a ranch in Colorado. His insatiable curiosity led him to investigate many
WYNN family Cesail Gyfarch, Penmorfa bishop, by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Morgan, bishop of Bangor, left two daughters, ANN (died 1 January 1699/1700), and MARGARET (died 1759). The latter married John Lloyd, barrister-at-law, son of William Lloyd, bishop of Norwich. ANNA LLOYD, the issue of the marriage between Margaret and John Lloyd, died unmarried in 1784, leaving the property to her father's brother, admiral Lloyd, of
WYNN family Glyn (Glyn Cywarch), Brogyntyn, and her son, William Owen, to let him and his parishioners of Llandanwg have the old Shire Hall at Harlech for conversion into a chapel-of-ease; both letters are in the Brogyntyn collection in N.L.W. - see Ellis Wynn: Dauganmlwyddiant, published by the National Library in 1934. The heir of Sir Robert Owen and lady (Margaret) Owen was WILLIAM OWEN (died 1768) who married Mary, daughter of Henry
WYNN family Rûg, Boduan, Bodfean, property under a will of 1780; it remained in Vaughan hands until the death, in 1859, of Sir Robert Williames Vaughan, 3rd baronet, who bequeathed it to the third son of Spencer Bulkeley, 3rd baron Newborough, i.e. to the Hon. CHARLES HENRY WYNN (born 22 April 1847; died 14 February 1911). C. H. Wynn was succeeded by his son, who ceased to live at Rûg c. 1951, but continued at the old family home, Boduan
WYNN family Gwydir, ' followers and received a pardon from Henry, prince of Wales, in 1408. As a result, possibly, of this division of loyalties, the bulk of the family possessions remained in the possession of the line of Ieuan ap Maredudd until 1463; in that year, the lands were partitioned and Gesail Gyfarch fell to the share of Ieuan ap Robert ap Maredudd (1437 - 1468). He was a Lancastrian and died of the plague at Gesail
WYNN family Bodewryd, to the living of Llaneugrad and Llanallgo, 17 February 1668/9, and again to Llantrisant, 7 October 1670. He married Margaret, eldest daughter of Robert Morgan, bishop of Bangor (and sister to the wife of Humphrey Humphreys, afterwards bishop of Bangor and of Hereford), 3 January 1671/2. It is not strange, therefore, that he secured the rectory of Llanddyfnan (which had been held 'in commendam' by
WYNN family Ynysmaengwyn, Dolau Gwyn, , Cardiganshire), IORWERTH (living in 1425), and JENKIN AP IORWERTH. Jenkin ap Iorwerth was ' farmer ' (lessee under the Crown) of the mills of Kevyng and Caethleff (Caethley) and of the ferry of Aberdovey, in the thirty-sixth year of Henry VI. Jenkin ap Iorwerth's son, HOWEL, died of the plague in 1494, but HUMPHREY (died 1545), his son by his wife Mary, daughter of Sir ROGER KYNASTON, constable of Harlech

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